The best free software

The great Lifehacker technology-blog just announced their top-50 list of the best free software right now, as voted by their readers. See the list here – with links for download and all. Check it out and make an effort to replace your proprietary software (Microsoft Office, Microsoft Outlook, Adobe Creative Suite etc.) with these free […]

Today: Buy Nothing Day

Today is the official Buy Nothing Day, as announced by Reverende Billy and Church of Stop Shopping, a New York Based advocacy group lead by comic preacher Reverend Billy, aka. actor Bill Talen, that trough books, flicks and spectacular appearances – most famous of which are those taking place in the citys’ Starbucks branches – […]

Tactical media strike extraordinaire

I know I’m a little late on blogging on this, but I want to do my part on spreading the word of the amazing New York Times spoof that took place a couple of weeks ago in the US. What a spectacle and what an incredible scale for political activism – one can only admire […]

The OLPC now available!

I’ve been circling around the OLPC like a hungry lion around a caged gazelle for months now, waiting for it to be publicly available – and now it finally happened for the Americans. We Europeans will have to wait until December 16, unfortunately. Background info: OLPC stands for One Laptop Per Child and is the […]

Creative Commons needs you

Received a newsletter-communication yesterday from Stanford University professor and copyright activist – and perhaps most notably former Creative Commons chief – Lawrence Lessig leading my attention towards the Creative Commons fundraiser taking place right now. The Commons are dependent on our funding – in order to continue their tireless efforts to offer a strong alternative […]

Airwaves are finally voted free by FCC

From the Google/FreeTheAirwaves newsletter: “We did it. On November 4, 2008, by a vote of 5-0, the Federal Communications Commission agreed to free the unused TV airwaves for unlicensed public use. This is a tremendous victory for Internet users. Thank you for being one of the more than 20,000 who signed the Free the Airwaves […]

Letter to the Nuyorican Poets Cafe

Although living in Denmark, I am still on the mailinglist of the legendary Nuyorican Poets Café in New York, that I used to appreciate so much back when I lived there last year. The café is situated on 3rd Street between avenues B and C, right in the midst of the East Village, and is […]